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| Three Ministers in SAC's dock over fresh charges of corruption, raising huge assets | | CS asked to provide details of all politicians enjoying status of Minister/MoS by September 28 | | | Ahmed Ali Fayyaz
SRINAGAR, Sept 23: State's highest accountability watchdog, Jammu & Kashmir State Accountability Commission (SAC), has received complaints, containing serious allegations, against two Ministers and one particular politician, enjoying the status of a Minister in Omar Abdullah's coalition government. While as the complaints against the two Ministers have been forwarded to them for their respective comments, third one concerning a prominent politician has been treated with a difference. SAC has asked Chief Secretary Madhav Lal to provide details about all the politicians of the ruling coalition who are not in Chief Minister's 22-member Council of Ministers but are enjoying the status of a Minister or Minister of State.
Resuming its functioning after suspended animation of over three years, SAC has entertained complaints against both the Ministers and forwarded the same to them for their respective comments. One of them, according to informed sources, has returned the document with a detailed response in defence. Commission is now examining the Minister's response in ... | |
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| J&K Assembly not competent to discuss Guru resolution: Chaman | | Drop debate from schedule, Speaker urged | | | ET Report
Jammu, Sept 23: At a time when all the political parties are gearing up and concretising their strategies on Afzal Guru resolution in the state Assembly, veteran politician and MLA Prof Chaman Lal Gupta has echoed his views on the crucial issue, urging the Speaker to drop the motion from schedule of discussion. Notwithstanding the stand akin to BJP , a party from which he has been expelled, the seniormost MLA has given 'reasons', contending Assembly is neither competent nor is the matter under the jurisdiction of the state Legislature.
Joining the political clamour of Jammu based parties, particularly the BJP, of which until recently he was formally a member, Prof Gu... | |
| | | | Meeting on session strategy today | | | | Even though the Speaker has yet to come out with a decision as to whom he will consider leader of BJP in the House in the coming session, Prof Chaman Lal Gupta, who claims that technically he continues to be leader unless MLAs in majority go against this, has convened a meeting along with six other legislators tomorrow in which the strategy for the session would be discussed and formalised. The group which includes six other MLAs of BJP suspended by the party is likely to enlist the issues which it would rake up during the session, focussing mainly on Jammu based matters and corruption as a general issue. Prof Gupta has also submitted a private members bill on the pattern of Lok Pal bill ... | |
| | | | RSS takes serious exception of Omar Abdullah's statement calling PoK as ‘Azad Kashmir’ | | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 23: The RSS has taken serious exception to the statement of J&K Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah who called Pak Occupied Kashmir (PoK) as Azad Kashmir and termed it misleading and unfortunate.
The RSS chief Dr Mohan Rao Bhagwat who is currently on five days tour of Jammu has reportedly taken the State Government to task for making such controversial statements saying that J&K is an integral part of India and PoK has been under forced occupation of Pakistan.
The RSS chief while substantiating his point has made a reference to Parliament's resolution of 1994 in this regard saying not only J&K but PoK is also the part of India. Dr Bhagwat who called the meeting ... | |
| | | | Parents of suspects term media reports 'speculative, theatrical, far-fetched' | | New Delhi High court blast case | | | Asif Iqbal Naik
KISHTWAR, Sept 23: Parents and relatives of the New Delhi High Court blast terror e-mail suspects have termed the media reports "one-sided, far-fetched, speculative, theatrical and mostly above all based on suspicion."
They have negated the version of National Investigating Agency (NIA) and said that while the media has been saying too much about the involvement of their children, the agencies who have booked them are silent. They maintain that silence of agencies has badly dented image of their children and stretched things beyond possibility of repair.
Parents of one of the three suspects today claimed that NIA probing terror email link to Delhi High Court blast sent ... | |
| | | | Shariq's parents hopeful of his early release | | | | Early Times Report
Kishtwar, Sept 23: Parents of Shariq Khawar Butt, who was picked up by police and NIA after the terror email was traced to Kishtwar, today hoped that their son would be released soon.
After the September 7 blast outside Delhi high court, email claiming responsibility was alleged to have been sent from a cyber cafe in the town.
Shariq's parents said as their son was found to be "innocent", they were hopeful that he would be released soon.
Police sources said Shariq would be released from police custody soon after the completion of legal formalities. "We have to do some legal formalities before releasing him as nothing adverse is found against him," the sources added.
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| | | | Baramullah administration misleads CM, yet to retrieve grabbed land | | Complicating return of Kashmiri Pandits! Revenue deptt patronising illegal occupants | | | Early Times Report
JAMMU, Sept 23: Despite tall claims of Chief Minister Grievance cell, a Kashmiri Pandit is yet to get his ancestral land in a remote Kashmir village retrieved from those who have grabbed it illegally.
On September 06, 2011, in a so-called high level meeting, Chief Minister's advisor Mubarak Gul was informed that grievance cell has disposed off 12,078 complaints as against total 12,992 complaints received ever since the Omar Abdullah launched the cell with much hope and hoopla two years back. He was informed that complaints are being disposed off "promptly" and officers 'on ground' responding satisfactorily".
Around the same time, a Kashmiri pandit Shambhu Nath, was pur... | |
| | | | Jammu for a credible, responsive leadership | | Trust Deficit | | | Neha
JAMMU, Sept 23: The Jammu province is passing through difficult times. There is widespread discontent and disaffection among its people. They are feeling abandoned and their sense of despondency has become a cause of concern. There is every possibility that the desperate people may lose its faith in the methodology they have used thus far to air their grievances and seek a permanent solution to their age-old problem which has been further compounded by the authorities in New Delhi by adopting a discriminatory attitude towards them. They are fed up with the existing politico-constitutional set-up because they feel, and rightly so, that it is Kashmir-centric and not state-centric and th... | |
| | | | Keen contest on cards, Saraf ahead | | JUTA president's election | | | Mishu Gupta
JAMMU, Sept 23: If interactions with faculty members are any indication, Dr. Neelam Saraf of Hindi Department is all set to take over as next President of prestigious Jammu University Teachers Association (JUTA).
A team of Early Times interacted with all the voters of JUTA and found out that Saraf has an edge over the other two candidates, namely Prof. Dalip Singh of mathematics department and Prof. Rajinder Gupta of economics department. Dr. Dalip Singh is contesting for the third time while Prof. Rajinder Gupta and Dr. Neelam Saraf have made it to the big league for the first times.
Faculty members said that Saraf has an edge over the other two potential candidate... | |
| | | | Karan Singh does some plain-speaking | | Exposing Nehru | | | Rustam
JAMMU, Sept 23: Former Maharaja and Sadar-e-Riysat of Jammu and Kashmir and Member Parliament Dr Karan Singh has finally spoken the truth and exposed late Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to put things in perspective. According to media reports, reflecting on the circumstances leading to the exile of his father, Maharaja Hari Singh, from the state, Karan Singh not only held Nehru responsible for the shabby treatment meted out to his father but he also accused him of hatching a conspiracy, in collaboration with Sheikh Abdullah of the Valley-based and pro-semi-independence National Conference, against the Maharaja.
What Karan Singh said was already known to the people, who have all th... | |
| | | | SKIMS spends money on machines instead of life-saving medicines | | | | Early Times Report
Srinagar, Sept 23: While poor patients in Valley's only super-specialty hospital are hankering from pillar to post for want of life saving drugs, crores of rupees are being spent by the Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences (SKIMS) authorities to purchase 'unnecessary and sub-standard machines', sources told KNS.
They said in the last few months only 'unnecessary and sub-standard' machines have been purchased for crores of rupees while stocks of life saving medicines have been exhausted.
"Patients who have to undergo surgeries have to purchase even gloves and medicines from the market. There are dozens of medicines which are out of stock for the last few months... | |
| | | | Appeal to Hon'ble speaker by Shri Chaman Lal Gupta BJP MLA | | | | Sir,
I had raised a question during the last session of the state assembly seeking a reply from the government regarding the decision to stop government advertisements to the daily Early Times published from Jammu.
I had also spoken about the highhandedness of the government and its arbitrary, whimsical dispensation regarding distribution of official advertisements to the various newspapers published in the state.
Despite repeated requests, the state government did not come forward with any reply to my question and the result has been that through its decision to ignore my question the state government has covertly accepted that it does not have a reasonable answer to my question.
Hon'b... | |
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